Nobody can refuse to talk with him, he is so honest and really curious to know; a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false; and not less pleased when confuted than when confuting; for he thought not any evil happened to men of such

However foolish it may be, I confess to a weakness for being on the stream at times when all experts agree that it is almost impossible to take fish -- not with the idea of confuting their theories, but with the hope of learning why it is so; and an experience one hot July proved to my entire satisfaction that there are times when trout are neither interested in food nor anything else.

He, then, is strong in argument and has the faculty of exhorting and confuting, who is able to show to each man the contradiction through which he errs and clearly to prove how he does not do that which he wishes and does that which he does not wish.

Above all, it appeared, that the best, the only method, which remained for confuting the daring aspersions that had affected her name, was, by proving the high respect he himself felt for her, and presenting her to the world in the sacred character of his wife.